By Catie Cheshire | Westword
Englewood residents have noticed a trend of vacant commercial properties, leading to more emergency calls and fewer storefronts.
But city leaders still aren’t sure how to tackle the problem after Englewood City Council came away lukewarm on a vacant-property registry.
“One of the reasons why I wanted this brought forward is because over the years, I’ve heard that some people have chosen to use our city as a tax haven, where it is cheaper for them to leave the building unoccupied as a tax write-off than it is for them to actually profit from having the building occupied,” councilman Steven Ward said during a November 4 council study session on the topic.
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